Now, given that, here's where it was actually used. I've un-indented it
several levels here for the purposes of making it fit on my
fixed-width page. In real life, this block was 3 hard tabs indented,
since it was part of a huge read-from-file-and-parse block:

This excerpt is from the first "from scratch" program I ever wrote in C
way back in 1996. For about a year prior to that point, I had only
been using the language in small amounts to change things in other
people's projects. The rest of the program is no better.

I wrote garbage code, and I even let other people see some of it. I
think I shared this particular code with a couple of friends. It was
messy and it had bugs and security holes and glaring omissions. In
the 17 years since that point, I hope I've improved a little.

Here's my challenge: find your nastiest code and post it publicly. Let
people see what kind of insanity flowed from your keyboard.
Unless you were born knowing how to code flawlessly, you must have
something worthy of that distinction.